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Privacy, data security, piracy. They are all major issues that affect content producers, creatives and startups. PrivacyNet presents compelling sources and the latest about developments in these fields. It is produced by Gordon Platt, an attorney, a former Emmy Award winning investigative journalist and founder of Gotham Media, a content marketing and strategic communications company.

Archive for Mobile Apps

Often when we think of content theft it’s movies and music that immediately spring to mind. In reality, though, the entire spectrum of creators feels the effects of piracy on their income, big or small, rich or poor, old or even […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Two interesting headlines this week that simply have to be drawn together: the increasing issue of mobile malware and the arrival on smartphones of Popcorn Time, the infamous movie and TV streaming site. “Netflix for pirates,” as the latter tends […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Remote computer access service LogMeIn has this week decided that its free users are worth that price of entry; zero. Giving them a seven day eviction notice – sorry, ‘grace period’ – users of LogMeIn Free will now need to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Desk top begot lap top begot mobile…. America (and the world) has truly gone mobile. Eighty-five percent of Americans now own a mobile phone, and over half of them use them to access the Internet. What’s more, there are over […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…